US 12,077,401 B2
Post-processing apparatus
Masatoshi Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/383,420.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-023640 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258998 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B65H 29/58 (2006.01); B65H 29/52 (2006.01)
CPC B65H 29/58 (2013.01) [B65H 29/52 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A post-processing apparatus comprising:
a transport passage on which a sheet that has been sequentially transported from an upstream side is transported;
a first transport path on which the sheet that has been transported from the transport passage is transported in a first direction;
a second transport path on which the sheet that has been transported from the transport passage is transported in a second direction;
a third transport path on which the sheet that has been transported from the transport passage is transported in a third direction; and
a guide mechanism that guides the sheet that has been transported from the transport passage, to any of the first, second, and third transport paths,
wherein the guide mechanism is configured by one switching mechanism,
wherein the one switching mechanism has a first gate member and a second gate member which are driven by one solenoid,
wherein a rotation axis of the second gate member is disposed at the upstream side with respect to a rotation axis of the first gate member,
wherein the first gate member is rotatably attached about a first rotation shaft, and is switched between an upper position and a lower position in a vertical direction according to an on/off state of the one solenoid,
wherein the first gate member comprises:
a first contact surface, coming into contact with the second gate member in a state in which the first gate member is switched to the lower position, and;
a second contact surface, coming into contact with the second gate member in a state in which the first gate member is switched to the upper position.